Ghana’s National Gas Company, Ghana Gas, has hinted that it will start pushing its first gas supply from the Atuabo gas processing plant to the Karpowership by October 31, 2019.

According to Ghana Gas, the laying and setting of pipelines to power the Karpowership had also been completed and currently undergoing tests.

The 470MW Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan which is operated by Karpowership Ghana Company Limited was relocated from Tema to Secondi-Takoradi few weeks ago in order to utilize gas from the Atuabo gas processing plant.

Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah who is the Communications Director for Ghana Gas, explained to journalists the ongoing work to push gas to Karpowership.

“After the purging of the nitrogen gas they try and do the technical works to see whether the pipelines are clean, everything is okay and there are no problems with the pipeline. It’s a technical engineering work as I always say and they have to go back and forth to make sure that everything is on point before they do that.”

“So expectedly, if everything goes on well, by 31st October we’ll push our first gas into the Karpowership. We’re expected to deliver almost about 60 to 90 million cubic feet of gas daily and if everything goes on well we can deliver about 470 megawatts of electricity for the people of Ghana,” he stated.

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